shafting: Meaning and Definition of

shaft•ing

1. a number of shafts.
2. a system of shafts, as the overhead shafts formerly used for driving the machinery of a mill.
3. steel bar stock used for shafts.
4. a system of shafts, as those around a pier or in the reveals of an archway.
5. an instance of unique or unfair treatment: The owners gave him a real shafting on the deal.